SH055
Turbulence and Magnetic Reconnection: What New Science Do We Learn from Parker Solar Probe? I

Wednesday, 16 December 2020: 16:00-17:00
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Stas Boldyrev, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Conveners:  Vadim Roytershteyn, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States and Stuart D Bale, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Stas Boldyrev, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Chairs:  Stas Boldyrev, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Vadim Roytershteyn, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States and Stuart D Bale, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Stas Boldyrev, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
16:00
Parker Solar Probe In-Situ Observations of Magnetic Reconnection in the Near-Sun Solar Wind (Invited) (664321)
Tai Phan1, Stuart D Bale2, Benoit Lavraud3, Jonathan P Eastwood4, Davin E Larson5, Roberto Livi6, Jasper S Halekas7, Phyllis L Whittlesey6, Ali Rahmati2, Marc Pulupa6, Robert J MacDowall8, Michael Louis Stevens9, Anthony W Case9, Justin Christophe Kasper10, Kelly E Korreck9, John W Bonnell11, James Frederick Drake12, Michael A Shay13, Marit Oieroset1, Timothy Simon Horbury14, Marco C M Velli15, Nour E. Raouafi16, Adam Szabo17, Andriy Koval17, Keith Goetz18 and Peter Harvey19, (1)Univ California, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)IRAP/CNRS, Toulouse, France, (4)Imperial College London, Physics, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (5)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (8)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (9)Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, United States, (10)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (11)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (12)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (13)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (14)Imperial College London, Department of Physics, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (15)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (16)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (17)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (18)University of Minnesota, School of Physics and Astronomy, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (19)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
16:05
Spontaneous Reconnection in Three-Dimensional Particle-In-Cell Simulations of Collisionless Plasma Turbulence (674147)
Jeffersson Andres Agudelo Rueda, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Dorking, RH5, United Kingdom, Daniel Verscharen, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, Robert T Wicks, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Christopher John Owen, University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Dorking, United Kingdom, Georgios Nicolaou, UTSA, Rymdcampus, San Antonio, TX, United States, Andrew P Walsh, European Space Astronomy Centre - ESA-ESAC, Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain, Yannis Zouganelis, European Space Agency, ESAC, Villanueva De La Can, Spain, Kai Germaschewski, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States and Santiago Vargas-Dominguez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
16:10
Statistical analysis and comparison of kinetic-scale current sheets measured aboard Wind and PSP (775919)
Ivan Vasko1, Kazbek Alimov2, Ajay Bhanudas Lotekar3, Stuart Bale4, Tai Phan5, Forrest Mozer4 and Anton Artemyev6, (1)University of California, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY, Berkeley, United States, (3)Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Navi Mumbai, India, (4)University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
16:15
On the stability and evolution of switchbacks in the solar wind (Invited) (686597)
Anna Tenerani, University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States, Marco C M Velli, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Lorenzo Matteini, Imperial College London, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom
16:20
Multiscale Solar Wind Turbulence Properties inside and near Switchbacks measured by Parker Solar Probe (771547)
Mihailo Martinović1, Kristopher G. Klein1, Jia Huang2, Benjamin D G Chandran3, Justin Christophe Kasper2, Emily Rose Lichko4, Michael Louis Stevens5, Anthony W Case5, Stuart Bale6 and Parker Solar Probe SWEAP, Parker Solar Probe Fields, (1)University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (4)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (5)Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, United States, (6)University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
16:25
Turbulence in the Near-Sun Streamer Belt Solar Wind (712620)
Christopher H K Chen, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom and Parker Solar Probe FIELDS and SWEAP Teams
16:30
Evidence of a newly-observed turbulent regime at sub-ion scales in space and astrophysical plasmas (735040)
Luca Franci1, Daniele Del Sarto2, Emanuele Papini3, David Burgess1, Alice Giroul1, Julia E Stawarz4, Petr Hellinger5, Simone Landi3 and Stuart D Bale6, (1)Queen Mary, University of London, London, United Kingdom, (2)University of Lorraine Nancy, Nancy Cedex, France, (3)Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy, (4)Imperial College London, Department of Physics, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (5)Astronomical Institute, CAS, Ondrejov/Prague, Czech Republic, (6)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
16:35
Compressible turbulence and density fluctuations in the solar wind (755386)
Xiangrong Fu1, Diana J Swanson2, Hui Li3, John T Steinberg2 and Zhaoming Gan1, (1)New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States
16:40
Q&A Discussion